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<blockquote data-quote="gizmom" data-source="post: 1389103" data-attributes="member: 13402"><p>Ebenezer</p><p></p><p>We feel very comfortable using our own bulls and have for quite a while. The last bull purchased in our operation was in 2009.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgXGwDUV_k&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgXGwD ... e=youtu.be</a></p><p></p><p>This bull is at the Florida Bull Test and will sell on 1/21/17. His flush brother will be turned out with our 2 and 3 year old cows next week we bred and raised these bulls. The dam of the flush was purchased as a flush cow, the sire of the embryos was a bull purchased from a dispersal sale. I have no regrets whatsoever about purchasing genetics that I think will move our herd forward. We have already turned out a young bull with our heifers that we raised, I can't take credit for breeding the one on heifers he was purchased as an egg, but we had the egg put in and we have raised the calf. We will be flushing the dam of the bull in the video on Tuesday to Coleman Charlo, then sending her to a facility to collect her several more times. I do plan to flush her back to the sire of the bull in the video, we only had that bull collected once and I am down to 70 straws so I will be using what I have left very carefully. I understand what your saying about using our own bulls, but I also see that AI allows us to incorporate new genetics into our herd that I couldn't do otherwise. </p><p></p><p>gizmom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmom, post: 1389103, member: 13402"] Ebenezer We feel very comfortable using our own bulls and have for quite a while. The last bull purchased in our operation was in 2009. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgXGwDUV_k&feature=youtu.be]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgXGwD ... e=youtu.be[/url] This bull is at the Florida Bull Test and will sell on 1/21/17. His flush brother will be turned out with our 2 and 3 year old cows next week we bred and raised these bulls. The dam of the flush was purchased as a flush cow, the sire of the embryos was a bull purchased from a dispersal sale. I have no regrets whatsoever about purchasing genetics that I think will move our herd forward. We have already turned out a young bull with our heifers that we raised, I can't take credit for breeding the one on heifers he was purchased as an egg, but we had the egg put in and we have raised the calf. We will be flushing the dam of the bull in the video on Tuesday to Coleman Charlo, then sending her to a facility to collect her several more times. I do plan to flush her back to the sire of the bull in the video, we only had that bull collected once and I am down to 70 straws so I will be using what I have left very carefully. I understand what your saying about using our own bulls, but I also see that AI allows us to incorporate new genetics into our herd that I couldn't do otherwise. gizmom [/QUOTE]
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